Anki: custom language card

The more time you spent playing with Anki, the more opinionated you become. Upon reading Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner, I got an itch to create my own Anki note template for learning languages. ...

February 3, 2024 · 432 words · Thiago Perrotta

Anki: find all notes with an empty field

Gabriel Wyner recommends, in its Fluent Forever book, that each Anki note (card) has at least one image associated to it. This is intended to improve overall retention. ...

January 29, 2024 · 152 words · Thiago Perrotta

Translating German to English

I’ve been trying to learn German on my own, without taking formal classes. I should write a post about this sometime. For now, in this post I will briefly list the resources I use to translate German to English and/or to look up the definition of German words in German. ...

April 3, 2022 · 326 words · Thiago Perrotta

Linux: US International keyboard layout

I use QWERTY keyboards with a US layout. Sometimes I need to type accents or cedillas, and I keep forgetting how to do so, this post summarizes how to do it. ...

February 27, 2022 · 249 words · Thiago Perrotta